Libsyn Podcast : Talking Drupal #447

Today we are talking about Drupal Single Sign On, The Benefits it brings to the Drupal Community, and A new book called Fog & Fireflies with guest Tim Lehnen. We’ll also cover Drupal.org Username Field as our module of the week. Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu

Topics

What is Single Sign On (SSO)
Does Drupal already support SSO
Why is SSO on drupal.org important
Camps using SSO
Other possibilities
Gitlab login
Cloud IAM
Why did the Drupal Association choose Cloud IAM
How do you see the collaboration growing
Where are we now
What are the next steps
How far are we from this becoming a reality
What does onboarding look like
Will third party sites be able to use D.O SSO
Can the community help
Fog & Fireflies
- First book
- Can you buy it now

Resources

Guests

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/447

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi
Matt Glaman – mglaman.dev mglaman

MOTW

Correspondent

Tim Lehnen – aspenthornpress.com hestenet

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to have a field on user profiles specifically designed for drupal.org usernames? There’s a module for that
Module name/project name:
Brief history
- How old: created in August 2019 by hussainweb AKA Hussain Abbas of Axelerant
- Versions available: 2.0.0-beta4
Maintainership
- Actively maintained, that release was made less than 6 months ago
- Test coverage
- Number of open issues: 8 open issues, none of which are bugs
Usage stats:
Module features and usage
- The module provides a new field type, along with its own widget and formatter
- With a simple checkbox, you can get the module to validate that the provided username is registered on drupal.org
- What’s really powerful about this module is that it can also pull other information from the drupal.org profile, such as first and last name, country, bio, and more
- It does this by leveraging a Guzzle-based API client for drupal.org that Hussain created as part of a DrupalCon Asia developer contest
- I believe the intended use of the modules is to use a provided drush command to copy the values from the drupal.org username field into other fields, where they would be displayed to site visitors
- Although this module isn’t something that a lot of sites will need, I could see it being really useful for Drupal camp websites, to automatically collect a lot of the information that many such sites ask users to populate manually
- I think it’s also an interesting use of the Drupal.org API, and could be a useful reference for anyone needing to implement a custom integration